Purchasing, Warehouse & Inventory Management
About the Training Program
Purchasing focuses on sourcing required goods and services according to quality, quantity, delivery time and cost targets.
Warehouses focus on receiving, storing and dispatching different types of inventory according to priorities.
All inventories must be managed considering trade-offs between customer satisfaction, delivery performance and related costs.
This course covers Purchasing, Warehouse and Inventory practices to ensure reliable material supply to production and customers.
Alternative approaches and implementations will be compared and discussed.
Presentations and all printed training materials provided to participants are in English.
Who Should Attend?
- Purchasing Management
- Factory Management
- Warehouse Management
- Inventory Management
- Supply Chain Management
- Operations Management
- Import / Export Management
- Production Planning & Control
- IT Management
- Those seeking a career in supply chain
Summarized Training Contents
- Supply chain competitiveness
- Demand-supply balance and effects on competitiveness
- Purchasing decisions, tools and digital transformation
- Supplier selection, relationships and collaboration
- Optimization of purchase quantities
Day 1:
Supply Chains & Purchasing Management
- Inventory management and optimization
- ABC inventory analysis, KPIs, order quantities
- Coordination of purchasing and supply planning with S&OP
- Warehouse management and planning
- Warehouse performance, costs and indicators
Day 2:
Inventory Planning, S&OP and Warehouse Planning
Detailed Training Contents (2 days)
- Supply chain competitiveness
- Operational process excellence
- Demand-supply balance and effects on competitiveness
- Demand, production and materials planning processes
- Purchasing Management
- Purchasing decisions and levels
- Operational purchasing process flows
- Purchasing tools and digital transformation
- Total cost of ownership (TCO)
- Supplier selection and prioritization
- Different levels of supplier relationships
- Bullwhip effect and supplier collaborations
- Make or buy decisions
- Assessing supply risks
- Optimization of purchase quantities
Day 1:
Supply Chain & Purchasing Management
- Inventory management and optimization
- Objectives and trade-offs in inventory management
- Inventories by function and related costs
- Uncertainty, safety stocks and lead times
- Pareto and ABC inventory analysis, KPIs
- Order quantity and timing determination
- Coordination with S&OP
- Purchasing, inventories, warehouses in supply planning
- Warehouse management and planning
- Layout, receival and shipping principles
- Storage and material handling principles
- Warehouse performance, costs and indicators
- Inventory positioning, picking and routing
- Packing and vehicle loading
Day 2:
Inventory Planning, S&OP and Warehouse Planning
Corporate References
Our trainings are preferred by leading industrial companies.
To date, 250+ training sessions have been delivered with participants from 500+ companies totaling 2500+ managers and employees.
We organized supply-chain-focused in-house trainings with the following companies.
Testimonials
Certification
Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance indicating each training day attended.
About the Instructor
The training modules are delivered by Dr. İlker Guclu, the program's designer and developer.
İlker completed his BSc, MSc and PhD at Bosphorus University, Department of Industrial Engineering.
Since 2003, he has worked in industry-focused training and consulting services, with the last 15+ years focused on supply chain management and optimization.
İlker is married and a father of two.
For the trainer's CV, click here.